“Help Wanted! Inquire Within!”
Many wonderful ideas have been flowing in from you all in the past months since I became Commodore, and now YOU can provide the hands, heads and hearts to bring them to life.
Here’s your chance to fill in some of that “free time” you have (ha, ha) by helping out the sport you love. Volunteers are needed to both lead and support several Arizona Yacht Club special committees: Here are just a few places where you and your special talents and interests can help improve your club.
Juniors: The junior program’s activity level has always been “parent driven”, and that activity has dropped off in recent years after “graduation” and relocation of several of those families. If you have kids and want to see more Kid-Friendly sailing and social activities, this is the committee for you!
Equipment: Got a special talent for “messing around with boats”? Love the smell of curing epoxy and fiberglass? Got a trailer-hitch and a little free time to haul a boat down to Phoenix Fiberglass? Keeping up with all the little repairs and preventive maintenance on our AYC/ASF Fleet is a never ending job – opportunity! – for you if any part of this sounds like what you like to do in your spare time.
Adopt-a-boat: This one is pretty simple. If you want to adopt a boat, we need to have someone to manage the adoption process. This is a perfect position for someone that wants to sail at TTL, but doesn’t feel a big need to race. Yes, you can manage your own adoption paperwork! Like everything in AYC, it doesn’t happen on it’s own.
History: As we’ve “gone digital”, and simply by the passing of time, we’ve lost visibility of our history, and many have suggested that it would be wonderful to see that history at club meetings, and online. This one calls for a little bit of the “librarian” in you for researching and organizing club’s history from the many cabinets and boxes of material, AND for some folks with high speed scanners to help get it into online form.
Marketing: From “brochure” design, to “working a booth” (or a boat) at local events, this is a great role for someone that loves to tell the story of AYC to others at events like Tempe Arts Fair, Lake Pleasant events, TTL events, REI “water sports day”, etc. Help us get the word out about what a great club we have!
You’ll keep hearing me say this, “Many hands make light work!” Please give me a call (602 679 0462) or drop me a quick email to let me know where you can help bring more life to the ideas that keep coming in about these types of activities and services in our club.
Emory Heisler
Commodore
